there's nothing i can do about you.
Preliminary setlist from the Matthew Good show. I will edit later with links to music.
eta: Now with music, video links, and some commentary on the show, bandom, and meta stuff. Because I like to hear myself type.
matthew good: the centre: september 20:
01. "Girl Wedged Under The Front Of A Firebird"
It's kind of weird, but it is a good intro to his sense of humour, mad beat skills, and. Um. Lung capacity? And angst, I guess.
02. "Load Me Up"
One of the Monster Singles that made Universal think MGB were a cash cow and tricked poor American frat boys into buying Beautiful Midnight.
03. "Strange Days"
Or, "Apparitions, Chapter 2." No, don't get me wrong, I love this song. And the video is AWESOME. But, you know, it's "Apparitions, Chapter 2." This is the acoustic version recorded for In A Coma, the "best of" set released in 2005. I'm upping the most stripped down renditions available, because the show was basically him and a guitar, so.
04. "Born Losers"
The first single from Hospital Music. Song #234 about his divorce. I kind of love it a lot. The dl URL spells "proud." This song kind of is. Hurt and so beaten, but proud.
05. "Black Helicopters" + mystery intro
This song goes with Andy's backstory in the post-catastrophic climate change reunion tour fic. He joins an ecosurvivalist commune! Everybody goes crazy like Lord of the Flies vs. Animal Farm! Pete rescues him! Um. Yeah. A political song.
06. "She's In It For The Money"
At the show, he said: "This song doesn't really need an introduction, because everything I could say about it is in the song." And then he said he wasn't sexist or misogynist, I heart him, and then: "Anyway. Basically, this is one of those songs you wish you never had to write." And I almost cried.
(Lyric reference: I want to make a Pete icon that says "build your heart of diamond and it don't need no ring," because yes. With a batmond stamped on it.)
07. "I'm A Window"
His friend Rod Bruno came on to play lead guitar on this one. Totally unscripted! Ha, right. And it was good and sweet. I love this song, but it's pretty much made by the last line: "If I am a window, come break in. Come break in."
08. "Symbolistic White Walls"
This is aaaaaaancient. One of the first MGB songs I ever heard. The video is lolariously bad. Oh Canadian TV, never change. Anyway, I like it a lot and listening to it last night I realised that Matthew is kind of like if Pete and Patrick were the same person. Which is both scary and really fucking awesome. Which is to say: more people should write not!songfic based on Matthew Good (Band) songs. The end.
09. "99% Of Us Is Failure"
This song makes me cry, because it is about someone dying of cancer, and my aunt did this summer, basically a lot like this, and. Yeah. It's beautiful, anyway.
10. "Avalanche"
It's about writing! My other journal is named after it! The First Ever Bright/Ephram Fic in Everwood fandom was songfic for it! It's epicly awesome!
11. "Odette"
This one's on the as-yet-unreleased "Lord Knows" soundtrack, and also my general "Break Open In Case Of Writing Pete" playlist. Just listen. It's objectively gorgeous.
12. "Primetime Deliverance"
A very, very famous MGB song. Mentions a pink bunny suit. "The best thing you can do is stick around for a while." This version also from In A Coma.
13. "Keep The Customer Satisfied" (Simon & Garfunkel cover)
I don't have this song, either the original or the cover. I'M SORRY.
14. "Pledge Of Allegiance"
When Avalanche first came out, I listened to this song on repeat forever, because I was going through a really shitty time and kind of needed to be told it was okay to be a failure in the eyes of everyone around me, as long as I was still loyal to the nation of myself (in a non-Rand way). There's a way to gain a lot of inner strength and freedom from acknowledging that.
This song has no real lead guitar part, so it's hard to play acoustic. He said last night that he'd just figured it out a few days ago. The song is--many years old. Like six or seven. I love him.
15. "Apparitions"
This is probably the one most people recognise. In Canada, anyway. The video for this one is fucking aMAZING. The song is not half-bad. Used to make me cry, without fail. The acoustic version still comes pretty close. Also from In A Coma.
Listening to him do old MGB songs is weird. I mean, the first time I saw him live, on his first solo tour (on which he had a full backing band of extreme awesomeness), he played "Apparitions" and "Giant" back to back and it--basically blew my head and heart apart. I think my write-up was something like: "'Apparitions' is a ghost. 'Giant' is a monster shucking its master." Because I am emo and secretly want to be a music writer.
ENCORE THE FIRST:
16. "North American For Life"
"All out of beer so go get your gun." He did it basically exactly like this, with just the backing string/organ track on his iPod. I LOVE HIM.
17. "Champions Of Nothing"
So this is basically the layout for the post-catastrophic climate change reunion tour. I loved it before I thought of the story, though. Because it's awesome. Wait out the possibly odd stuff at the beginning. "What doesn't kill us now only makes us better whores."
ENCORE THE SECOND:
18. "Suburbia"
This was totally my Everwood song (Ephram/Amy in particular, because wow neither the song nor that relationship can possibly end well). It's just spectacular, in any case.
If you sign up at Matthewgood.org, you can hear an acoustic version very much like what he played last night. It's free, and there are other sweet things in the media player too.
19. "Metal Airplanes"
More head eaten by bandom. This song goes really well with "G.I.N.A.S.F.S." No, it does. I love it besides that, of course, just. You know. "Get a house, pretend to live in peace. Paint the walls, a blackout of your face. Stalk the halls, then move into the basement."
20. "Fated"
Also old. Originally from a b-sides EP which also included a cover of "Enjoy the Silence" and the brain-exploding "Born To Kill" (searing guitar solos and Full Metal Jacket reference, guys. GUYS). Anyway: "There's a cartoon killer in my living room/cut you open like candy and pull out your little wound/like tv dinners for the third world/and amputee dancing girls/you try but you fail 'cause you're bad at life/and good in a vacuum."
At the end, you can hear him get up and leave the room. Oh Pete Matthew.
21. "The Fine Art Of Falling Apart"
"I used to think I'd get over everything, but everything just got over me."
About this point, I was like: "Okay. Matt is Pete and Patrick at the same time. And I am watching a possible Patrick in ten years. I'm already excited." Because bandom owns my brain. SORRY MATT YOU STILL PWN MY HART. I have loved this song for too many years to count. It was my anthem for a good chunk of them.
22. "True Love Will Find You In The End" (Daniel Johnston cover)
I believe this song to be True. It gives me Hope. And other things with anachronistic capital letters.
---
GUYS. IT WAS SO AWESOME. HE'S SO AWESOME. ILU, MATT.
eta: Now with music, video links, and some commentary on the show, bandom, and meta stuff. Because I like to hear myself type.
matthew good: the centre: september 20:
01. "Girl Wedged Under The Front Of A Firebird"
It's kind of weird, but it is a good intro to his sense of humour, mad beat skills, and. Um. Lung capacity? And angst, I guess.
02. "Load Me Up"
One of the Monster Singles that made Universal think MGB were a cash cow and tricked poor American frat boys into buying Beautiful Midnight.
03. "Strange Days"
Or, "Apparitions, Chapter 2." No, don't get me wrong, I love this song. And the video is AWESOME. But, you know, it's "Apparitions, Chapter 2." This is the acoustic version recorded for In A Coma, the "best of" set released in 2005. I'm upping the most stripped down renditions available, because the show was basically him and a guitar, so.
04. "Born Losers"
The first single from Hospital Music. Song #234 about his divorce. I kind of love it a lot. The dl URL spells "proud." This song kind of is. Hurt and so beaten, but proud.
05. "Black Helicopters" + mystery intro
This song goes with Andy's backstory in the post-catastrophic climate change reunion tour fic. He joins an ecosurvivalist commune! Everybody goes crazy like Lord of the Flies vs. Animal Farm! Pete rescues him! Um. Yeah. A political song.
06. "She's In It For The Money"
At the show, he said: "This song doesn't really need an introduction, because everything I could say about it is in the song." And then he said he wasn't sexist or misogynist, I heart him, and then: "Anyway. Basically, this is one of those songs you wish you never had to write." And I almost cried.
(Lyric reference: I want to make a Pete icon that says "build your heart of diamond and it don't need no ring," because yes. With a batmond stamped on it.)
07. "I'm A Window"
His friend Rod Bruno came on to play lead guitar on this one. Totally unscripted! Ha, right. And it was good and sweet. I love this song, but it's pretty much made by the last line: "If I am a window, come break in. Come break in."
08. "Symbolistic White Walls"
This is aaaaaaancient. One of the first MGB songs I ever heard. The video is lolariously bad. Oh Canadian TV, never change. Anyway, I like it a lot and listening to it last night I realised that Matthew is kind of like if Pete and Patrick were the same person. Which is both scary and really fucking awesome. Which is to say: more people should write not!songfic based on Matthew Good (Band) songs. The end.
09. "99% Of Us Is Failure"
This song makes me cry, because it is about someone dying of cancer, and my aunt did this summer, basically a lot like this, and. Yeah. It's beautiful, anyway.
10. "Avalanche"
It's about writing! My other journal is named after it! The First Ever Bright/Ephram Fic in Everwood fandom was songfic for it! It's epicly awesome!
11. "Odette"
This one's on the as-yet-unreleased "Lord Knows" soundtrack, and also my general "Break Open In Case Of Writing Pete" playlist. Just listen. It's objectively gorgeous.
12. "Primetime Deliverance"
A very, very famous MGB song. Mentions a pink bunny suit. "The best thing you can do is stick around for a while." This version also from In A Coma.
13. "Keep The Customer Satisfied" (Simon & Garfunkel cover)
I don't have this song, either the original or the cover. I'M SORRY.
14. "Pledge Of Allegiance"
When Avalanche first came out, I listened to this song on repeat forever, because I was going through a really shitty time and kind of needed to be told it was okay to be a failure in the eyes of everyone around me, as long as I was still loyal to the nation of myself (in a non-Rand way). There's a way to gain a lot of inner strength and freedom from acknowledging that.
This song has no real lead guitar part, so it's hard to play acoustic. He said last night that he'd just figured it out a few days ago. The song is--many years old. Like six or seven. I love him.
15. "Apparitions"
This is probably the one most people recognise. In Canada, anyway. The video for this one is fucking aMAZING. The song is not half-bad. Used to make me cry, without fail. The acoustic version still comes pretty close. Also from In A Coma.
Listening to him do old MGB songs is weird. I mean, the first time I saw him live, on his first solo tour (on which he had a full backing band of extreme awesomeness), he played "Apparitions" and "Giant" back to back and it--basically blew my head and heart apart. I think my write-up was something like: "'Apparitions' is a ghost. 'Giant' is a monster shucking its master." Because I am emo and secretly want to be a music writer.
ENCORE THE FIRST:
16. "North American For Life"
"All out of beer so go get your gun." He did it basically exactly like this, with just the backing string/organ track on his iPod. I LOVE HIM.
17. "Champions Of Nothing"
So this is basically the layout for the post-catastrophic climate change reunion tour. I loved it before I thought of the story, though. Because it's awesome. Wait out the possibly odd stuff at the beginning. "What doesn't kill us now only makes us better whores."
ENCORE THE SECOND:
18. "Suburbia"
This was totally my Everwood song (Ephram/Amy in particular, because wow neither the song nor that relationship can possibly end well). It's just spectacular, in any case.
If you sign up at Matthewgood.org, you can hear an acoustic version very much like what he played last night. It's free, and there are other sweet things in the media player too.
19. "Metal Airplanes"
More head eaten by bandom. This song goes really well with "G.I.N.A.S.F.S." No, it does. I love it besides that, of course, just. You know. "Get a house, pretend to live in peace. Paint the walls, a blackout of your face. Stalk the halls, then move into the basement."
20. "Fated"
Also old. Originally from a b-sides EP which also included a cover of "Enjoy the Silence" and the brain-exploding "Born To Kill" (searing guitar solos and Full Metal Jacket reference, guys. GUYS). Anyway: "There's a cartoon killer in my living room/cut you open like candy and pull out your little wound/like tv dinners for the third world/and amputee dancing girls/you try but you fail 'cause you're bad at life/and good in a vacuum."
At the end, you can hear him get up and leave the room. Oh Pete Matthew.
21. "The Fine Art Of Falling Apart"
"I used to think I'd get over everything, but everything just got over me."
About this point, I was like: "Okay. Matt is Pete and Patrick at the same time. And I am watching a possible Patrick in ten years. I'm already excited." Because bandom owns my brain. SORRY MATT YOU STILL PWN MY HART. I have loved this song for too many years to count. It was my anthem for a good chunk of them.
22. "True Love Will Find You In The End" (Daniel Johnston cover)
I believe this song to be True. It gives me Hope. And other things with anachronistic capital letters.
---
GUYS. IT WAS SO AWESOME. HE'S SO AWESOME. ILU, MATT.